1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
Congratulations to Stephan Artist, Steve Bell, Brigadude, Susan Berlin, Seth Christenfeld, Paco CM, William Cox, Jason Flum, Ingrid Gammerman, Kelsee B. Hankins, James Harris, Cathy Jones, N…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Augu…
Summertime, and the traveling isn't always easy: plane delays, security lines, a crying baby in the seat next to you. But plays and musicals call from across the country, and so, I must go.
Honor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the st…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Me…
The best musical I've seen this season gives us George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and yes, you're already saying, we know: HAMILTON.
No, that was last season's show, as the Drama Desk, …
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The …
So why would the new musical LOVING REPEATING – called “a play within a lecture” – make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame? Well, for one thing, in …
You certainly need many bodies to write, direct, design, produce and perform a musical. Perhaps that's why so many lyricists cite the human body in their lyrics.
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The …
Perhaps you’ve been debating whether or not to stage BILLY ELLIOT at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play i…
We've lately been hearing a lot about A CHORUS LINE's opening forty years ago.
But THE WIZ did, too. And at the moment, the African-American urban take on THE WIZARD OF OZ " which only ra…
I've never been a Smokey Joe's Café fan. When the show opened, I used the word "putrid" in my review, which prompted the producer to write and complain. And yet, while I was in Lincoln, Neb…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Jul…
The sign outside the theater says "Every word in THREE DAYS TO SEE (except for the show's first moments) was written by Helen Keller." Yeah, there's no question that she didn't contribute to…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Jul…
When the term “family show” is used, it’s usually a euphemism. What it more often means is a show that little kids will like or love. Mom and Dad, however, won’t be a…
How considerate of Kristin Chenoweth to close ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY five days before her birthday. That way, the cast didn't have to go through the expense of cards, a cake, candles and p…
Unless my colleague Matthew Murray has squealed on me, no one knows I made a tremendous mistake late last year.
It happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precise…
The response to Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more impr…
So I see that SOMETHING ROTTEN! " the marvelous musical at the St. James " is still advertising itself as "Loser! Best Musical! 2015 Tony Award!"
The late, great acerbic comic Phyllis Diller had plenty of memorable one-liners, but there's one I remember most. With half-closed eyes that said she'd seen more fire than rain, Diller drone…
September 16, 1991. Studio B in the John Houseman Theatre on 42nd Street. I'm seeing a staged reading of a new musical called RUTHLESS!
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: June…
